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Everytime I hear Ben speak it reminds me of those 1950s 8mm propaganda films they'd show us in elementary school about [very FDR accent] "the rise of western civilization and its accompanying technological marvels" or something like that, sponsored by Frigidaire & Ford.
Like this one, in which Archimedes comes back to life to descant on the glories of Western Civilization with a mechanical engineer. archive.org/details/ToEnri…
Needless to say, the origin of every great idea can be traced back to the mind of a man in a toga. 
